LOL... exactly... just because your interests are different doesn't mean that those things that someone else idolizes and escapes with are any better or worse than those things that you do.
From the article:
'My town is the best because the incredibly wealthy owners decided to keep the team for now.' Or, 'My political team is the best because it was my dad's and they best stoke my primitive fears,' as opposed to 'They have the best policies for me and my family.'
Required reading. In a couple of short sentences, he exposes and decodes the core cultural aberration of the false spectacle - the pseudo-life - in which people imagine themselves.
*Laugh* - Life is pseudo-life. About 99% of what I do is an escape from reality really. But what is reality, sit there and do nothing but stare at a wall and you're in reality?
Presumably being a geek, you play video games right? Or have played D&D? Or like movies? Or dream?
The first 2 examples you gave have nothing to do with "pseudo-life", they just have to do with someone making presumably poor decisions based on emotion rather than logic. But if their decision brings them a sense of happiness (which is all success or happiness really is, whatever it's defined as for you, maybe it's more important to them that their local team wins than them having good school systems), was it really the illogical decision? In your set of logic, yes, in their scope maybe not?
Ahh, we could spin on this for hours. There's no right or wrong answer in politics and societal norms, which is what this is really about.
That said, being a geek, I hope we get more respect, paid more and are considered more attractive (although I seem to get a lot of respect from people now, that has never been a huge issue really?) and I think the author has some good points.
I just disagree with your sentiment about "pseudo-life":).
This is why I think Tesla should market to Europe more - smaller countries, smaller distances driven, and far more green-friendly governments and policies.
Also you would hope that the GPS would be linked to capacity and tell you if you can make it, and where recharge stations are en-route.
However I'm a fan of having an on-board small-capacity traditional engine that is used solely as a generator rather than being tied into the complexities of the car propulsion system. If that would generate enough charge to let me limp those ten miles it might be okay.
And in ten years, when the technology is affordable, hopefully the technology will have matured to a point where none of this is an issue. Even to the point of solar roofing options for trickle charging during the day (and simultaneously keeping the car cool inside). Not that this option would help me in Britain...
I wouldn't even categorize the Tesla as "short distance", it is more "medium distance". It travels about the same distance as most cars do on a single tank of gas. How often do most people really use up an entire tank of gas in one day, I don't have the stats but I'd bet my shirt they are the exception. The convenience of not having to stop at the gas station once a week would be amazing as well.
313 miles is almost exactly the range of my '99 Subaru Outback Legacy (15-gallon tank), which is worth about $2500 now. Except I can easily refuel that and keep going. The trip to my folks' house is 365 miles.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology Tesla was going to be comparable with the hybrids. This article helps re-adjust my expectations, but it also gives me hope that by time they're generally affordable the range will be there too.
Well, for ME, this car IS general purpose. I haven't driven more than 150 miles in a single day in probably 4 years. And when I did, it was because my job required me to and I was getting paid by the mile or had the option of renting.
If you are planning on hauling your family across multiple states (or longways across a really big state) then this vehicle definitely isn't for you. However, I can't imagine it costing that much to rent or just buy a cheap van and keep it in the garage for the times you do.
The price tag is way too high though, I'm looking at the Chevy Volt or a similar series hybrid car in the next 5 years or so to be in a good price range.
the Celts were a much more populous and civilized society than their English neighbors, who were still running around the woods and building log stockades whilst the Celts were building beautiful stone castles
INSIGHTFUL MY ACHING ASS!
speaking as a Scotsman i find this funny as hell. you see celts were not just Scotland,Wales and Ireland........... they were pretty much ALL OVER EUROPE. Celts were a culture and not a race... there were Celts all over the place INCLUDING ENGLAND!!!! oh and Germany.. and Switzerland and France or and spain.....remember the OstroGoths?Visigoths?..erm.. celts..... the celts even sacked Rome...... this is where Milan gets it's name from....
The foundation of Milan is credited to two Celtic peoples, the Bituriges and the Aedui, having as their emblems a ram and a boar
yeah.. right next door to England isn't it? and as far as a plague.. well oe third of the roman empire was humped by the plague... however you will find that the SCots and Irisg celts by the VERY nature of them being OUTWITH the roman empire..remember the Scots kicked the crap out the Romans on more than one occassion. and the Irish were prtty much unscathed due to no real expiditionary force from the Romans altough thre was some trade(ie slaves) between the Romans and Irish.Decimation whilst having a roman root isn't even the right wird..lol decimation means 1 out of ten killed. it was , for exa,mple when a legion fucked up they got 1 out of every ten men and killed then as a lesson to the rest not to fuck up again. Or if a p[eople rebelled the same would happen to that population locally as a lesson to the rest. 1/3 != 1 out of ten.
there were walls built to seperate the Scots tribes from Roman britain.. thus the plague very much kinda skipped the Scots and Irish on that occassion.
i could go on and show you how amazingly wrong you are in yer wee statement but tbh i cannot bothered.
i mean did you really believe what you said or just enjoy making shit up?
That was the most insightful, drunken, Scottish post ever.
Everyone keeps talking like neanderthals are an extinct sub-human species.
Please stop that right now, they are still here. They have just assimilated into our society.
Go onto any construction site, and you can see them plain as day.
Many have even gotten jobs in civil service. The US Congress is full of them.
"Has anyone ever told you, 'Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!'?"
I don't own a 360; but I don't twist words to try to find excuses to hate. The summary is guilty of that. Geez. Unreasonable hate directed at MS just makes the REASONABLE hate directed at MS seem less valid. I'd tone it down.
Well said, crying wolf is a trait that just doesn't seem to go away.
Which is why I would think that Health Insurance companies would be lobbying AGAINST this as well, and they are literally rolling in money. Their margin benefits greatly from getting generic drugs on the market as fast as possible.
Video games can also grossly misrepresent evolution, driving, archaeology and just about anything else they're based on. They are for the most part a source of entertainment meant to create a virtual world that may or may not have anything to do with real life. That is the point. They're supposed to be fun. Sometimes the historical inaccuracy is the whole point; It can be fun to interact with a world that isn't historically accurate; alternate timelines for example.
I'm pissed that my video game misrepresents Elves.
Perhaps the people who actually did it are dead or close to dying and the "facts" surrounding it will die with them as they get written and re-written over the course of time. Also perhaps in 1000 years, nobody will give a shit (I don't even give a shit and it's only been like 80 years).
(Insert Historical Reference Here) have(has) utilized historical narrative extensively, but to what extent does(do) (Insert Historical Reference Here) take liberties with, and perhaps misuse it?
Really though, a game is just a freaking game, it's not a history book. History books should be taken with a grain (perhaps a bushel) of salt anyways.
If you're not reading and/or in-taking information that you intend on using as fact critically then you're not reading and/or in-taking information that you intend on using as fact correctly.
Perception of misuse is a user error, or "I - d - 10 - T" as they say in the business.
If I want to believe that WWII consisted of one man gunning through hordes of nazi zombies in a series of boxes, then that's my own prerogative.
Yes please, my first gut reaction was to say "holy crap, what could possibly go wrong?" Then I read the article and my reaction was, "holy crap, this is a revolutionary way of capturing electromagnetic waves that." Seriously, this seems from the super short non-descriptive article, like it could actually be on every solar panel in 10 years.
I completely agree, they need to fix the name lol. Although it is catchy, something like "light sucker" or something would make more sense.
The picture on my license is blurry and the lighting is terrible, there is a fat chance in hell any image recognition software out there could ID me. A person would be hard pressed to positively ID me with the picture there and me standing next to it.
Everything has bias. Stop even attempting to claim that anything is objective. People use bias as a way to attack the value of what is being said. The truth is that everything said or written carries a spin intended by the original author. Whether this affects the veracity of what is said is an entirely separate matter.
100% correct, although most people won't like to hear it, "left-wing" in the west is "right-wing" in the UK. The BBC is absolutely biased, and from the US perspective, biased Left. Although they at least strive not to be biased. I liken them to PBS, who is fairly central for the US but I'm sure are Right from the UK perspective.
Wired and optical technologies will ever be superior to wireless, by the simple fact that they're essentially 1D lines running through 3D space, whereas a typical wireless signal is a 3D signal in 3D space - a single frequency gives a fixed bandwidth to a single user in a given ~volume~.
Advanced tricks allow increased sharing, but the fundamental limitations remain.
Consider the volume of a typical wifi base station.. now imagine filling that volume with OC192 cabling. As they say on the "intartoobs", "pwned".
Superior in bandwidth and security, inferior in about 100 other ways, mainly the fact that there is a wire involved.
The original 8086 processor could address 1 megabyte of memory (20 bits) with a 16 bit processor. It used two registers (one shifted left by four bits) to address memory.
A 64 bit processor could trivially access a 128-bit address space by using the same segment:offset method.
How quickly we forget!
Writing code to use 'near' and 'far' pointers was a constant headache, of the same magnitude of C++'s requirement that you be constantly aware of character width when manipulating strings.
Which is why a modern compiler and programming language would abstract this and handle it for you.
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
Microsoft are some kind of joke company.
Yea, while the iPhone is pretty good, it does have serious memory issues crashing and locking up (some fault on application designers), occasionally crashes completely in 3.1 (just shuts off) and randomly disconnects calls (although it has gotten better).
There's no such thing as bug free software, especially when you're talking about something as complex as an OS + applications running on top of it, but striving for greater stability is always a good thing.
They say these can be installed by standard roofing techniques... I don't know if anyone else has ever nailed down asphalt shingles but it's about as low-tech as it gets. So the question is how do these interconnect electrically?
I could imagine a couple ways - perhaps there are contacts that need to be aligned prior to nailing. Either that, or they intend for an electrician to come in after the roofers and attach a bus bar or something. Anyone got the full story?
The future for residential solar is not in the highest-tech, highest efficiency panels. Rather, it will be the system which gives the lowest $/W after ALL costs, including installation, depreciation, and in this case, savings because it also serves as your actual roof. Sounds like a great idea to me.
It uses Tesla technology to transmit the energy through the air and through your roof into a single point in your home that is identified by a homing beacon.
I think I would gladly take cancer if I was assured it was not going to kill me due to being immortal;}
No, actually it will kill you. Keeping your telomeres ship shape only prevents a number of "old age" sort of problems. Cancerous material can kill you as well as it can kill any young person.
Then the OP is incorrect and you will not, in fact, be immortal.
I tried to argue that you could fit whole seasons of some TV shows on one Blu-Ray disk, but the argument came back "if it ain't in HD, I'm not buying a Blu-Ray disk." So these new disks could hold entire runs of some series, but it probably won't be sold as such. Pity.
Or I could hold an entire season in HD of a TV series on a single 1 TB magnetic hard drive (for less money).
By "2012-2015" a 1 TB HD will be like what, 20 or 30 bucks?
More importantly though, by 2012-2015, we'll have what, petabyte hard drives? We'll just be downloading and/or streaming our HD videos.
I tried to argue that you could fit whole seasons of some TV shows on one Blu-Ray disk, but the argument came back "if it ain't in HD, I'm not buying a Blu-Ray disk." So these new disks could hold entire runs of some series, but it probably won't be sold as such. Pity.
Or I could hold an entire season in HD of a TV series on a single 1 TB magnetic hard drive (for less money).
By "2012-2015" a 1 TB HD will be like what, 20 or 30 bucks?
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LOL... exactly... just because your interests are different doesn't mean that those things that someone else idolizes and escapes with are any better or worse than those things that you do.
From the article: 'My town is the best because the incredibly wealthy owners decided to keep the team for now.' Or, 'My political team is the best because it was my dad's and they best stoke my primitive fears,' as opposed to 'They have the best policies for me and my family.'
Required reading. In a couple of short sentences, he exposes and decodes the core cultural aberration of the false spectacle - the pseudo-life - in which people imagine themselves.
*Laugh* - Life is pseudo-life. About 99% of what I do is an escape from reality really. But what is reality, sit there and do nothing but stare at a wall and you're in reality?
:).
Presumably being a geek, you play video games right? Or have played D&D? Or like movies? Or dream?
The first 2 examples you gave have nothing to do with "pseudo-life", they just have to do with someone making presumably poor decisions based on emotion rather than logic. But if their decision brings them a sense of happiness (which is all success or happiness really is, whatever it's defined as for you, maybe it's more important to them that their local team wins than them having good school systems), was it really the illogical decision? In your set of logic, yes, in their scope maybe not?
Ahh, we could spin on this for hours. There's no right or wrong answer in politics and societal norms, which is what this is really about.
That said, being a geek, I hope we get more respect, paid more and are considered more attractive (although I seem to get a lot of respect from people now, that has never been a huge issue really?) and I think the author has some good points.
I just disagree with your sentiment about "pseudo-life"
This is why I think Tesla should market to Europe more - smaller countries, smaller distances driven, and far more green-friendly governments and policies.
Also you would hope that the GPS would be linked to capacity and tell you if you can make it, and where recharge stations are en-route.
However I'm a fan of having an on-board small-capacity traditional engine that is used solely as a generator rather than being tied into the complexities of the car propulsion system. If that would generate enough charge to let me limp those ten miles it might be okay.
And in ten years, when the technology is affordable, hopefully the technology will have matured to a point where none of this is an issue. Even to the point of solar roofing options for trickle charging during the day (and simultaneously keeping the car cool inside). Not that this option would help me in Britain...
I wouldn't even categorize the Tesla as "short distance", it is more "medium distance". It travels about the same distance as most cars do on a single tank of gas. How often do most people really use up an entire tank of gas in one day, I don't have the stats but I'd bet my shirt they are the exception. The convenience of not having to stop at the gas station once a week would be amazing as well.
313 miles is almost exactly the range of my '99 Subaru Outback Legacy (15-gallon tank), which is worth about $2500 now. Except I can easily refuel that and keep going. The trip to my folks' house is 365 miles.
I had assumed that with all the talk of new technology Tesla was going to be comparable with the hybrids. This article helps re-adjust my expectations, but it also gives me hope that by time they're generally affordable the range will be there too.
Well, for ME, this car IS general purpose. I haven't driven more than 150 miles in a single day in probably 4 years. And when I did, it was because my job required me to and I was getting paid by the mile or had the option of renting.
If you are planning on hauling your family across multiple states (or longways across a really big state) then this vehicle definitely isn't for you. However, I can't imagine it costing that much to rent or just buy a cheap van and keep it in the garage for the times you do.
The price tag is way too high though, I'm looking at the Chevy Volt or a similar series hybrid car in the next 5 years or so to be in a good price range.
INSIGHTFUL MY ACHING ASS! speaking as a Scotsman i find this funny as hell. you see celts were not just Scotland ,Wales and Ireland........... they were pretty much ALL OVER EUROPE. Celts were a culture and not a race... there were Celts all over the place INCLUDING ENGLAND!!!! oh and Germany.. and Switzerland and France or and spain.....remember the OstroGoths?Visigoths?..erm.. celts..... the celts even sacked Rome...... this is where Milan gets it's name from....
yeah.. right next door to England isn't it? and as far as a plague.. well oe third of the roman empire was humped by the plague... however you will find that the SCots and Irisg celts by the VERY nature of them being OUTWITH the roman empire..remember the Scots kicked the crap out the Romans on more than one occassion. and the Irish were prtty much unscathed due to no real expiditionary force from the Romans altough thre was some trade(ie slaves) between the Romans and Irish .Decimation whilst having a roman root isn't even the right wird..lol decimation means 1 out of ten killed. it was , for exa,mple when a legion fucked up they got 1 out of every ten men and killed then as a lesson to the rest not to fuck up again. Or if a p[eople rebelled the same would happen to that population locally as a lesson to the rest. 1/3 != 1 out of ten.
there were walls built to seperate the Scots tribes from Roman britain.. thus the plague very much kinda skipped the Scots and Irish on that occassion.
i could go on and show you how amazingly wrong you are in yer wee statement but tbh i cannot bothered.
i mean did you really believe what you said or just enjoy making shit up?
That was the most insightful, drunken, Scottish post ever.
Everyone keeps talking like neanderthals are an extinct sub-human species. Please stop that right now, they are still here. They have just assimilated into our society. Go onto any construction site, and you can see them plain as day. Many have even gotten jobs in civil service. The US Congress is full of them.
"Has anyone ever told you, 'Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays!'?"
Dunno why that made me think of Office Space.
I don't own a 360; but I don't twist words to try to find excuses to hate. The summary is guilty of that. Geez. Unreasonable hate directed at MS just makes the REASONABLE hate directed at MS seem less valid. I'd tone it down.
Well said, crying wolf is a trait that just doesn't seem to go away.
Which is why I would think that Health Insurance companies would be lobbying AGAINST this as well, and they are literally rolling in money. Their margin benefits greatly from getting generic drugs on the market as fast as possible.
More realistically, it was a draw.
I think the battle is pretty interesting though and drives home the point of Churchill, "History is written by the victors."
If it was, indeed, Churchill that originally quoted it!
Video games can also grossly misrepresent evolution, driving, archaeology and just about anything else they're based on. They are for the most part a source of entertainment meant to create a virtual world that may or may not have anything to do with real life. That is the point. They're supposed to be fun. Sometimes the historical inaccuracy is the whole point; It can be fun to interact with a world that isn't historically accurate; alternate timelines for example.
I'm pissed that my video game misrepresents Elves.
Perhaps Hollywood was confused too...
Perhaps the people who actually did it are dead or close to dying and the "facts" surrounding it will die with them as they get written and re-written over the course of time. Also perhaps in 1000 years, nobody will give a shit (I don't even give a shit and it's only been like 80 years).
(Insert Historical Reference Here) have(has) utilized historical narrative extensively, but to what extent does(do) (Insert Historical Reference Here) take liberties with, and perhaps misuse it?
Really though, a game is just a freaking game, it's not a history book. History books should be taken with a grain (perhaps a bushel) of salt anyways.
If you're not reading and/or in-taking information that you intend on using as fact critically then you're not reading and/or in-taking information that you intend on using as fact correctly.
Perception of misuse is a user error, or "I - d - 10 - T" as they say in the business.
If I want to believe that WWII consisted of one man gunning through hordes of nazi zombies in a series of boxes, then that's my own prerogative.
Yes please, my first gut reaction was to say "holy crap, what could possibly go wrong?" Then I read the article and my reaction was, "holy crap, this is a revolutionary way of capturing electromagnetic waves that." Seriously, this seems from the super short non-descriptive article, like it could actually be on every solar panel in 10 years.
I completely agree, they need to fix the name lol. Although it is catchy, something like "light sucker" or something would make more sense.
That's the *real* question. 1080p makes a bigger difference when hooked up to a big-screen TV than it will in a tiny hand-held.
haha, kind of sad when their handheld will have better graphics than their console
The picture on my license is blurry and the lighting is terrible, there is a fat chance in hell any image recognition software out there could ID me. A person would be hard pressed to positively ID me with the picture there and me standing next to it.
Everything has bias. Stop even attempting to claim that anything is objective. People use bias as a way to attack the value of what is being said. The truth is that everything said or written carries a spin intended by the original author. Whether this affects the veracity of what is said is an entirely separate matter.
100% correct, although most people won't like to hear it, "left-wing" in the west is "right-wing" in the UK. The BBC is absolutely biased, and from the US perspective, biased Left. Although they at least strive not to be biased. I liken them to PBS, who is fairly central for the US but I'm sure are Right from the UK perspective.
Welcome to the real world of physics.
Wired and optical technologies will ever be superior to wireless, by the simple fact that they're essentially 1D lines running through 3D space, whereas a typical wireless signal is a 3D signal in 3D space - a single frequency gives a fixed bandwidth to a single user in a given ~volume~.
Advanced tricks allow increased sharing, but the fundamental limitations remain.
Consider the volume of a typical wifi base station .. now imagine filling that volume with OC192 cabling. As they say on the "intartoobs", "pwned".
Superior in bandwidth and security, inferior in about 100 other ways, mainly the fact that there is a wire involved.
How quickly we forget!
Writing code to use 'near' and 'far' pointers was a constant headache, of the same magnitude of C++'s requirement that you be constantly aware of character width when manipulating strings.
Which is why a modern compiler and programming language would abstract this and handle it for you.
we'll be dramatically lowering our hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
Most customers just hope for a device that will function without crashing or freezing every couple of hours. Do Microsoft really want customers to lower their hopes below that?
Microsoft are some kind of joke company.
Yea, while the iPhone is pretty good, it does have serious memory issues crashing and locking up (some fault on application designers), occasionally crashes completely in 3.1 (just shuts off) and randomly disconnects calls (although it has gotten better).
There's no such thing as bug free software, especially when you're talking about something as complex as an OS + applications running on top of it, but striving for greater stability is always a good thing.
They say these can be installed by standard roofing techniques... I don't know if anyone else has ever nailed down asphalt shingles but it's about as low-tech as it gets. So the question is how do these interconnect electrically?
I could imagine a couple ways - perhaps there are contacts that need to be aligned prior to nailing. Either that, or they intend for an electrician to come in after the roofers and attach a bus bar or something. Anyone got the full story?
The future for residential solar is not in the highest-tech, highest efficiency panels. Rather, it will be the system which gives the lowest $/W after ALL costs, including installation, depreciation, and in this case, savings because it also serves as your actual roof. Sounds like a great idea to me.
It uses Tesla technology to transmit the energy through the air and through your roof into a single point in your home that is identified by a homing beacon.
audio version of story on NPR...
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112752256
It's great news however how are we going to solve the population crisis when the Earth gets too small?
I always knew I was going to be 512 years old before I die. :]
One way trip to Mars... not actually a joke ;). http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/04/a-one-way-one-person-mission-to-mars/
I think I would gladly take cancer if I was assured it was not going to kill me due to being immortal ;}
No, actually it will kill you. Keeping your telomeres ship shape only prevents a number of "old age" sort of problems. Cancerous material can kill you as well as it can kill any young person.
Then the OP is incorrect and you will not, in fact, be immortal.
I tried to argue that you could fit whole seasons of some TV shows on one Blu-Ray disk, but the argument came back "if it ain't in HD, I'm not buying a Blu-Ray disk." So these new disks could hold entire runs of some series, but it probably won't be sold as such. Pity.
Or I could hold an entire season in HD of a TV series on a single 1 TB magnetic hard drive (for less money). By "2012-2015" a 1 TB HD will be like what, 20 or 30 bucks?
More importantly though, by 2012-2015, we'll have what, petabyte hard drives? We'll just be downloading and/or streaming our HD videos.
I tried to argue that you could fit whole seasons of some TV shows on one Blu-Ray disk, but the argument came back "if it ain't in HD, I'm not buying a Blu-Ray disk." So these new disks could hold entire runs of some series, but it probably won't be sold as such. Pity.
Or I could hold an entire season in HD of a TV series on a single 1 TB magnetic hard drive (for less money).
By "2012-2015" a 1 TB HD will be like what, 20 or 30 bucks?